110+ Dante Alighieri Quotes On Death, Hell And Beatrice

Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet from the 13th century. He is most famous for his epic poem, the Divine Comedy, which is considered one of the greatest works of world literature. Dante is also known for his influence on the Italian language and his political views, which were heavily influenced by the Catholic Church. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Dante Alighieri on life, love, death.

Top 10 Dante Alighieri Quotes

1. Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
2. Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
3. The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other.
4. Beauty awakens the soul to act.
5. L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle (The love that moves the sun and the other stars)
6. Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
7. Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
8. I care not where my body may take me as long as my soul is embarked on a meaningful journey.
9. He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
10. Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words

Dante Alighieri Image Quotes

Beauty awakens the soul to act. — Dante Alighieri

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. — Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery. — Dante Alighieri

Nature is the art of God. — Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Short Quotes

• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.
• Nature is the art of God.
• From a little spark may burst a flame.
• He listens well who takes notes.
• If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven
• My soul tasted that heavenly food, which gives new appetite while it satiates.
• From a small spark, Great flame has risen.
• Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.
• He who awaits the call, but sees the need, Already sets his spirit to refuse it.
• A mighty flame followeth a tiny spark.

Dante Alighieri Quotes About Life

Lying in a featherbed will bring you no fame, nor staying beneath the quilt, and he who uses up his life without achieving fame leaves no more vestige of himself on Earth than smoke in the air or foam upon the water. — Dante Alighieri

Here let dead poetry rise once more to life. — Dante Alighieri

The experience of this sweet life. — Dante Alighieri

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream. — Dante Alighieri

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost. — Dante Alighieri

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise. — Dante Alighieri

In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’. — Dante Alighieri

Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. — Dante Alighieri

The purpose of the whole [the Comedy] and of this portion [the Paradiso] is to remove those who are living in this life from the state of wretchedness, and to lead them to the state of blessedness. — Dante Alighieri

There is a gentle thought that often springs to life in me, because it speaks of you. — Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Quotes About Love

...ma gia volgena il mio disio e'l velle si come rota ch'igualmente e mossa, l'amor che move: i sole e l'altre stelle ...as a wheel turns smoothtly, free from jars, my will and my desire were turned by love, The love that moves the sun and the other stars. — Dante Alighieri

Love insists the loved loves back — Dante Alighieri

Eternal love made me. — Dante Alighieri

Love is the source of every virtue in you and of every deed which deserves punishment. — Dante Alighieri

Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone. — Dante Alighieri

Now you know how much my love for you burns deep in me when I forget about our emptiness, and deal with shadows as with solid things. — Dante Alighieri

He is, most of all, l'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. — Dante Alighieri

I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves. — Dante Alighieri

Love with delight discourses in my mindUpon my lady's admirable gifts...Beyond the range of human intellect. — Dante Alighieri

Love kindled by virtue always kindles another, provided that its flame appear outwardly. — Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Quotes About Death

These have not the hope to die. — Dante Alighieri

He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he has learned how Heaven loves the just ruler, and he would show this outwardly as well, so radiantly visible. — Dante Alighieri

I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightfoward pathway had been lost. Ah me! How hard a thing is to say, what was this forest savage, rough, and stern, which in the very thought renews the fear. So bitter is it, death is little more. — Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Quotes About Hell

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. [This miserable mode Maintain the melancholy souls of those Who lived withouten infamy or praise.] — Dante Alighieri

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. — Dante Alighieri

There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about. — Dante Alighieri

Abandon all hope, you who enter here! — Dante Alighieri

There is a place in Hell called the Malebolge. — Dante Alighieri

The path to paradise begins in hell. — Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Quotes About Divine

O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall? — Dante Alighieri

The devil is not as black as he is painted. — Dante Alighieri

The whole universe is but the footprint of the Divine goodness. — Dante Alighieri

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble. — Dante Alighieri

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice. — Dante Alighieri

I found myself within a forest dark. — Dante Alighieri

When I had journeyed half of our life's way, I found myself within a shadowed forest, for I had lost the path that does not stray. — Dante Alighieri

That with him were, what time the Love Divine — Dante Alighieri

Justice divine has weighed: the doom is clear. All hope renounce, ye lost, who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

Midway upon the journey of our life — Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Quotes About Eternal

The heaven that rolls around cries aloud to you while it displays its eternal beauties, and yet your eyes are fixed upon the earth alone. — Dante Alighieri

Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground. — Dante Alighieri

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal. — Dante Alighieri

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth. — Dante Alighieri

The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power. — Dante Alighieri

Through me you go into a city of weeping; through me you go into eternal pain; through me you go amongst the lost people — Dante Alighieri

Hope not ever to see heaven. I come to lead you to the other shore; into the eternal darkness; into fire and ice. — Dante Alighieri

Before me things created were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

Oh blind! Oh ignorant, self-seeking cupidity which spurs us so in the short mortal life and steeps us so through all eternity! — Dante Alighieri

No man may be so cursed by priest or pope but what the Eternal Love may still return while any thread of green lives on in hope. — Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Quotes About Fire

Pride, envy, avarice - these are the sparks have set on fire the hearts of all men. — Dante Alighieri

Avarice, envy, pride,Three fatal sparks, have set the hearts of allOn Fire. — Dante Alighieri

In each fire there is a spirit; Each one is wrapped in what is burning him. — Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Quotes About Hope

Without hope we live in desire. — Dante Alighieri

Still desiring, we live without hope. — Dante Alighieri

We have no hope and yet we live in longing. — Dante Alighieri

Abandon every hope, you who enter. — Dante Alighieri

Lost are we, and are only so far punished, That without hope we live on in desire. — Dante Alighieri

Abandon hope, all ye who enter here. [Omnes relinquite spes, o vos intrantes] — Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Quotes About Made

Consider the sea's listless chime: Time's self it is, made audible. — Dante Alighieri

Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed. — Dante Alighieri

I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me. — Dante Alighieri

The day that man allows true love to appear, those things which are well made will fall into cofusion and will overturn everything we believe to be right and true. — Dante Alighieri

Compassion is not a passion; rather a noble disposition of the soul, made ready to receive love, mercy, and other charitable passions. — Dante Alighieri

I made my own house be my gallows. — Dante Alighieri

Love hath so long possessed me for his own And made his lordship so familiar. — Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri Famous Quotes And Sayings

Beauty awakens the soul to act. — Dante Alighieri

Do not be afraid; our fate Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift. — Dante Alighieri

Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. — Dante Alighieri

I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

Nature is the art of God. — Dante Alighieri

Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My maker was divine authority, The highest wisdom, and the primal love. Before me nothing but eternal things were made, And I endure eternally. Abandon every hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri

Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds. — Dante Alighieri

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone. — Dante Alighieri

As flowerlets drooped and puckered in the night turn up to the returning sun and spread their petals wide on his new warmth and light-just so my wilted spirits rose again and such a heat of zeal surged through my veins that I was born anew. — Dante Alighieri

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.) — Dante Alighieri

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. — Dante Alighieri

How come I never meet any nice girls? — Dante Alighieri

They yearn for what they fear for. — Dante Alighieri

I saw a point that shone with light so keen, the eye that sees it cannot bear its blazing; the star that is for us the smallest one would seem a moon if placed beside this point. — Dante Alighieri

Follow your own star! — Dante Alighieri

Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings. — Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy. — Dante Alighieri

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness. — Dante Alighieri

Do not desert me when I need you most. And if we can't go on together, let's retrace our steps as quickly as we can. — Dante Alighieri

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought. — Dante Alighieri

Unity in wills cannot be unless there is one will dominating and ruling all the rest to oneness... wills of mortals have need of a directive principle... therefore for the well-being of the world, there should be a monarchy. — Dante Alighieri

As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning. — Dante Alighieri

You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs. — Dante Alighieri

At grief so deep the tongue must wag in vain; the language of our sense and memory lacks the vocabulary of such pain. — Dante Alighieri

I wept not, so to stone within I grew. — Dante Alighieri

O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can you not see that we are worms, each one/ Born to become the angelic butterfly/ That flies defenseless to the Judgement Throne? — Dante Alighieri

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. — Dante Alighieri

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind. — Dante Alighieri

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. — Dante Alighieri

Will cannot be quenched against its will. — Dante Alighieri

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy. — Dante Alighieri

Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle. — Dante Alighieri

To get back up to the shining world from there My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel, And Following its path, we took no care To rest, but climbed: he first, then I-so far, through a round aperture I saw appear Some of the beautiful things that Heaven bears, Where we came forth, and once more saw the stars. — Dante Alighieri

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not. — Dante Alighieri

Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. — Dante Alighieri

There, pride, avarice, and envy are the tongues men know and heed, a Babel of depsair — Dante Alighieri

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! — Dante Alighieri

The glory of Him who moves everything penetrates through the universe, and is resplendent in one part more and in another less. — Dante Alighieri

Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness — Dante Alighieri

He is not always at ease who laughs. — Dante Alighieri

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power. — Dante Alighieri

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best. — Dante Alighieri

Three sparks - pride, envy, and avarice - have been kindled in all hearts. — Dante Alighieri

Deed done is well begun. — Dante Alighieri

This mountain is so formed that it is always wearisome when one begins the ascent, but becomes easier the higher one climbs. — Dante Alighieri

My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri

In the middle of the journey of our lifeI found myself astray in a dark woodwhere the straight road had been lost sight of. — Dante Alighieri

Thy soul is by vile fear assailed, which oft so overcasts a man, that he recoils from noblest resolution, like a beast at some false semblance in the twilight gloom. — Dante Alighieri

As phantoms frighten beasts when shadows fall. — Dante Alighieri

Of my sowing such straw I reap. O human folk, why set the heart there where exclusion of partnership is necessary — Dante Alighieri

Those ancients who in poetry presented the golden age, who sang its happy state, perhaps, in their Parnassus, dreamt this place. Here, mankind's root was innocent; and here were every fruit and never-ending spring; these streams--the nectar of which poets sing. — Dante Alighieri

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. — Dante Alighieri

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water. — Dante Alighieri

So may heaven's grace clear away the foam from the conscience, that the river of thy thoughts may roll limpid thenceforth. — Dante Alighieri

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame. — Dante Alighieri

Life Lessons by Dante Alighieri

1. Dante Alighieri teaches us to stay true to our beliefs and values, no matter how difficult the journey may be.
2. He also encourages us to confront our fears and strive for a better life, even if it means taking risks and leaving our comfort zone.
3. Finally, Dante's works remind us to be humble and to never forget the importance of friendship and love in our lives.